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Historical Introduction

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Generalized Epilepsy

Abstract

Epilepsy, known in ancient times as The Sacred Disease, was long thought to be due to evil spirits or to evil humors affecting the brain. Hippocrates described patients whose convulsive movements began on the side of the body opposite to that of a head injury, and thus introduced over two thousand years ago, the idea of focal or partial seizures.

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  1. H. H. Jasper
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Neurophysiology, McGill University, H3A 2B4, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Massimo Avoli M.D., Ph.D.  & Pierre Gloor Ph.D.  & 

  2. Department of Physiology, University of Patras Medical School, 261 10, Patras, Greece

    George Kostopoulos M.D., Ph.D.

  3. Laboratoire de Physiologie Nerveuse, CNRS, F-91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Robert Naquet M.D.

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Jasper, H.H. (1990). Historical Introduction. In: Avoli, M., Gloor, P., Kostopoulos, G., Naquet, R. (eds) Generalized Epilepsy. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6767-3_1

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